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📢 Now Available The latest issue of Insecurity Monitor, “Palestine and the Global Order,” is out now — free to download as an e-book or order in print via @4Tadween. As Israel’s genocide in Gaza enters its third year, the issue examines the Palestinian struggle, global solidarity, and shifting geopolitical realities. 📖 Get your copy here: tadweenpublishing.com/collections/in… ℹ️ For more on the issue: securityincontext.org/posts/security…

New Article - "Somaliland's Secession and Sovereignty: How Israel's Recognition of Somaliland Acts as Subjugation" by Prisca Afantchao Read the full paper here - securityincontext.org/posts/somalila…

New Policy Paper - "A Violent Convergence: How Silicon Valley and Private Finance Are Reshaping War" by Shana Marshall (@marshall_shana) Read the full paper here - securityincontext.org/posts/a-violen…

Security in Context (@SecurityContext) is pleased to host Prof. Fernando Brancoli for a residency at The Five College Consortium with events at Hampshire College (@hampshirecolg) and Mount Holyoke College (@mtholyoke). Special thanks to the UMass Institute for Social Science Research (@UMassISSR). @ufrj @the_IAS

"With each passing day, the US-Israeli war on Iran looks increasingly like a moral and security quagmire-in-the-making." Read Negar Razavi's SiC Policy Brief "Hedging for War: How Washington’s Foreign Policy Experts Blame Trump for a War with Iran They Helped Legitimate" securityincontext.com/posts/hedging-…

We continued our coverage of Latin American development, militarism, and social movements with a major publication on Latin America, our Security in Context Report, “Beyond Militarism: Reimagining Security and Resistance in Contemporary Latin America,” published on May 28, 2025. Read more in SiC’s 2025 Year in Review - securityincontext.com/posts/security…

On July 17-18, 2025, SiC’s Global South and World Order project hosted a “Red Sea Workshop” in Mombasa, Kenya, bringing together 12 leading researchers whose work critiques prevailing narratives and explores alternative paradigms in our understanding of the Red Sea region. Read more in SiC’s 2025 Year in Review - securityincontext.com/posts/security…

On April 24, 2025, Security in Context hosted Multilateralism from the Margins, a roundtable about multilateralism in the Global South held at the Institute for Advanced Study in the Global South at Northwestern University in Qatar (#IAS_NUQ) in Doha. Read more in SiC’s 2025 Year in Review - securityincontext.com/posts/security…

On September 1, 2025, SiC Senior Researcher Leila Hilal published a research paper on the negotiations between Syria’s interim authorities and Israel as mediated by the United States following December 2024’s regime collapse. Read more in SiC’s 2025 Year in Review - securityincontext.com/posts/security…

On April 7, 2025, SiC Senior Researcher Mandy Turner published a 40,000-word, deeply researched systemic analysis of influential Western think tanks and their knowledge production during the genocide in Gaza, titled “Hegemony factories or independent thinkers? Western think tanks on Israel and Palestine after October 7.” Read more in SiC’s 2025 Year in Review - securityincontext.com/posts/security…

In 2025, Security in Context (SiC) continued its wide coverage of global issues, with cutting-edge knowledge production and evidence-based publications alongside workshops and interviews with scholars and activists. Read SiC’s 2025 Year in Review here - securityincontext.com/posts/security…

🚨 CALL FOR PAPERS | Special Issue on “Global South and Multipolar Imperialism: Alliances, Fractures, and Possibilities” DEADLINE - April 1, 2026 Details below 👇 securityincontext.com/posts/call-for…

🚨 New Article | Venezuela at a Crossroads: The Perplexing Desire for US Intervention and the Future of our Political Imagination Read it here 👇 securityincontext.org/posts/venezuel…

Leila Hilal is a Security in Context senior researcher and a former adviser to Palestinian negotiators.

🚨 New Article | Syria’s interim authorities are engaged in U.S.-mediated talks with Israel, raising urgent concerns over sovereignty and prospects for a peaceful state transition. ✍️ In her latest piece, Leila Hilal argues for renewing the transitional process and advancing an independent, accountable foreign policy. 🔗 securityincontext.org/posts/syrias-i…

📢 The new Insecurity Monitor is out: “Palestine and the Global Order” Read & download free via @4Tadween ⬇️ tadweenpublishing.com/collections/in…

The authors behind this issue include: @omardahi @MouinRabbani @AmahlBishara @MalakaShwaikh @stephensemler @z_dgga @obadashtaya @HermezSami @khalidirj @nevegordon @TariqNDana @BoulosSonia @AbuJamajem @roosbelinda @zmmoloo @frrodriguezc @alvincamba and more.

The latest issue of Insecurity Monitor, titled “Palestine and the Global Order,” is free to read and download via @4Tadween. ➡️tadweenpublishing.com/collections/in… As Israel’s genocide in Gaza enters its third year, this volume explores key dimensions of the Palestinian struggle and global solidarity—highlighting how these intersect with shifting geopolitical realities. 🔍 For more on the issue, visit our site: securityincontext.org/posts/security…

Very happy to share that the new issue of Security in Context Insecurity Monitor is now available for electronic download and to order in print (both for free) from Tadween Publishing . Many thanks to my co-editors Mandy Turner and Julia Cameron for their tireless work as well as the Security in Context staff for behind the scenes help throughout. This is our very small contribution to shed light on and support efforts to end the genocide in Gaza, and to hold Israel accountable, the main moral imperative of our day. The issue contains outstanding contributions by Haidar Eid, Abdalhadi Alijla, Mouin Rabbani, Neve Gordon, Raja Khalidi, Amahl Bishara, Tariq Dana, Malaka Shwaikh, Zayne Abudaka and Obada Shtaya, Mayssoun Sukarieh, Stephen Semler, Sam Heller, Francesca Acsecnarf Albanese, Sonia Boulos, Richard Jackson, Saul Takahashi, Sami Hermez and others tadweenpublishing.com/collections/in…

Was glad to contribute to the latest issue of @SecurityContext’s Insecurity Monitor, “Palestine and the Global Order”: tadweenpublishing.com/collections/in… I wrote about how I understand U.S. policy in the Middle East and the U.S.-Israel relationship, as well as how those could change: